All plating is Yellow Cad or electroless nickel with some zinc thrown in.
Cab is nearing paint, hopefully by July 1st.
Stripped completely down to metal in and out top to bottom. Scrubbed with metal conditioner primed with PPG DP74LF then K36. Its now sanded down, seam sealed and another coat of primer in next couple days.
Colors will be stock Poppy Red (calypso coral)(60449) and wimbleton white 2tone. Very rare color combo.
must be an automatic truck from the hole in the floor.
Thanks Bill!
Yes its an automatic truck.
Yesterday I found an NOS Carlite windshield, today found a NOS floor mat.
Pretty exciting to be finally moving along with the project.
Few interior pics:
NOS upholstery, replated dash bezel. Goal is to make it look like a new truck using as many NOS parts as I can find. The engine combo of course not original to the truck but goal is to make it look like it came that way from a "R" Fairlane or Comet.
Interior and exterior will be 100% bone stock with exception of wider wheels and radial tires (Nitto 555R's)
Stock widened Ford wheels with NOS HubCaps. Not sure if I will use the trim rings but have them just in case. THe wheels will get powdercoated body color.
It will sit a bit lower than stock but not slammed. Stance will be important if I can get it where I want it without it looking too far away from stock. Sleeper type of look.
I know the lack of input can be a bit discouraging, but keep in mind that most of FTE's "traffic" is in the model-specific forums. Those views drop off significantly once you hit the Miscellaneous & General forum sections. And, let's face it, doing restorations almost seems to be a dying hobby. Not very many folks around that have the space, tools, money, and know-how to pull off something like you are doing. My hat is off to you for that, if nothing else.
At any rate, my dad had a '65 F100 (bought new) that I would have loved to have been able to restore. Unfortunately, he finally let it go back in the mid-90s. So, now I cannot help but look at these resto projects (especially the mid-60's F100s) with a whole lot of admiration & maybe a smidge of jealousy!
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I know the lack of input can be a bit discouraging, but keep in mind that most of FTE's "traffic" is in the model-specific forums. Those views drop off significantly once you hit the Miscellaneous & General forum sections. And, let's face it, doing restorations almost seems to be a dying hobby. Not very many folks around that have the space, tools, money, and know-how to pull off something like you are doing. My hat is off to you for that, if nothing else.
At any rate, my dad had a '65 F100 (bought new) that I would have loved to have been able to restore. Unfortunately, he finally let it go back in the mid-90s. So, now I cannot help but look at these resto projects (especially the mid-60's F100s) with a whole lot of admiration & maybe a smidge of jealousy!
Thanks All!
My dad bought a New '66 F100 on October 10th 1965 then passed the truck on to me nearly 20yrs later. Gave me the bug as I used to use my paper route money to buy wax to keep it shiney. Dad thought it was a waste of time because it was only a "truck".
I now have a '65 F250 CC CS for a daily summer driver.
Restoring like this even tho the truck was pretty cherry to start with is a HUGE undertaking but enjoy doing it when I can. Most likely this will be my last restoration job as getting too old and worn out to do it any more.
One last Hurrah before I quit... Goal is to make it nicer than the Boss 302 I finished this time last year.
I am kind of a nut job for NOS parts & trying to keep the way ford did it alive. So far 9+ yrs of collecting them for this project. Be fun to bolt em' all on.
The body & paint work is the hardest to do as not so young anymore.
Very nice Arizona truck to start with. Very small ding in bedside, not a single one in doors or fenders, couple minor ones in roof. Other than that body was pretty much perfect and soooooooo straight.
Unfortunately the bed floor was not so perfect. Quite a few dings etc. Found the 2008/2009 Super Duty bed floor will drop right in so picked one up for around 300.00
Photo's of it being installed very soon.
I had to remove slightly over 200 spot welds to get the old one out. As you will see it was nice for a driver but I wanted perfection with no dings or dents and could not see myself bent over hammering out all the dents. (of course the arms are not quite long enough to hold dolly on opposite side either. LOL)
These are the carts I made for moving the cab and box around.
One will stack on top of the other, mostly for raising cab for underside blasting. For painting I leave on cart and just raise it up with hoist as needed for underside.
You are doing an amazing job. I cant believe all the work you have put into this truck already.
If you dont mind, im a bit curouis how much you have invested into this truck?
Again verrrrryyyy good job! Thats going to be one fantastic truck when your done with it!!
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